This is a bad article. Is there any other cloud provider who has a cloud offering certified to hold top secret/secret data?
This is Amazon trying to engineer a permanent piece of the public largess for themselves. That's all. They aren't better at this than anyone else. For that matter, the same could be said for all the other top tech companies. I'm just tired of AWS fans saying that it's strictly merit based. That's not how anything works in big business. It's naïve and childish.